Re: information related to blobs

aravind chandu wrote:
> Blobs stores large amount can you please tell me
> what is the limit i.e hw many kb of data can it store ? say
> 4000k like that.
>
> For suppose if a 4000kb data can be stored using
> blob and the data stored in blob is 3600k what about the
> remaining data? will it allocates all the 4000kb data or will
> it allocates only 3600kb data? Like char(100) it will
> allocates all 100 bytes in memory and varchar(100) which is
> variable memory?

There are actually two data types that provide BLOB functionality:

Large Objects, which can be up to 2GB in size
(http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/lo-intro.html)
and bytea, which can be up to 1GB in size
(http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/datatype-binary.html)

Read the documentation for the pros and cons of each.

Both will only use (about) as much disk space as the actual object needs.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe